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Inspiration in matters of taste will not come twice.
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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Émile Salomon Wilhelm
Andre Maurois
Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog
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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
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Live as if you were eternal.
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We don't love a woman for what she says, we like what she says because we love her.
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It is restful to leave one's home not because traveling does not entail varied and difficult daily actions, but because it removes our responsibilities.
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Among the idle rich, boredom is one of the most common causes of unhappiness. People who have difficulty in earning their living may suffer greatly, but they are not bored. Wealthy men and women become bored when they depend upon the theater for their enjoyment instead of making their own lives interesting.
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A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.
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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot run with his son, but he can totter with his grandson. Our first and last steps have the same rhythm.
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You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.
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One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them.
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Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.
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To desire to be perpetually in the society of a pretty woman until the end of one's days, is as if, because one likes good wine, one wished always to have one's mouth full of it.
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Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
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We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.
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Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved when she is absent she become one of the sylph-like figures of our adolescence whom we endowed with perfection.
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
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Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on.
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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
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British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified.
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